ENGL2026 — Creative Writing: Memoir & Nonfiction
ENGL 2026 - Creative Writing: Memoir & Nonfiction ENGL 2026 - Creative Writing: Memoir & Nonfiction Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None Course Description: This creative writing class intended for all students focuses on the writing and close reading of memoir and creative nonfiction. The evolving genre of nonfiction uses the literary techniques often found in fiction and poetry to tell true stories about real people and events. In addition to memoir, nonfiction texts may include nonfiction shorts, the personal essay, and other blended forms. Because creative writing involves both creativity and scholarship, coursework includes critical analysis of student and published writing; forming aesthetic judgments about creative nonfiction; writing and revising creative nonfiction; form and technique in creative nonfiction; and responding to the creative work of classmates in a writing community. This course does not fulfill the Literature requirement for the Associate of Arts degree at Century College. MnTC Goals 6 Humanities/Fine Arts Basic word processing and computer skills. Major Content 1. Contemporary aesthetics in memoir & creative nonfiction-including current blended and hybrid forms 2. Published memoir & creative nonfiction as models for student writing selected readings may include Cheryl Strayed, David Foster Wallace, Anne Lamott, Maxine Hong Kingston, Philip Lopate, Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Brenda Miller, Lee Gutkind, and others observation and discussion of writers’ choic
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052